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Stay tuned as we get more details.

UPDATE: PSN BACK ONLINE

According to Ask PlayStation UK, the Official Twitter support for UK PlayStation, PSN is once again back up and running.

A tweet released to their followers reads:

"Thank you for your patience whilst we fixed this. All services are now up and running again."

GTA 5 also looks to have been fixed, although GTA News who reported the issues with GTA Online's army of fans have not announced if they're still being inundated with complaints from people unable to play the game online.

ORIGINAL STORY

PlayStation Network users are reporting outages across the UK and the US with thousands of gamers unable to get online.

The Official Ask PlayStation Twitter account has tweeted:

"We're aware that some users are experiencing issues logging into PSN. Thanks for your patience as we investigate"

Website monitoring service, Down Detector, reports thousands of people as unable to access the PSN network.

A group called 'Phantom Squad' have claimed responsibility for PSN being down, writing several updates on Twitter which included:

"We are responsible for the outage of PSN ... sit back and enjoy the takedown on PSN ... Shall we keep going or did you have enough?"

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Currently the Sony PSN status page is showing as all green and working fine, but there's still numerous people complaining online of PSN now working.Despite the

Despite the green lights, Ask PlayStation have not said everything is back to normal.

And people playing GTA 5 are also reporting that they're experiencing issues on ALL platforms, despite the Rockstar support page also showing everything as working.

We will continue to update this story until the PSN/GTA 5 servers are back online for the majority of people.